Nuffnang Tiger Stand Out Party

Last Saturday we had one of the largest Nuffnang Blogger parties ever in HQNine at TTDI Plaza with close to 300 attendees. This time we worked together with Tiger on this... so naturally it was a party with lots and lots of booze.

Just about all our parties have some sort of theme for people to dress up and that night the theme was to wear anything that "Stands Out". The best dressed male would win an XBOX 360 and the best dressed female would win a Coach bag.

The best dressed male came as Edward Scissorhands

and the best dressed female was....

It's unbelievable... the number of girls that night who wanted to win the Coach bag so badly. Some even told me how badly they wanted to win but unfortunately I had no say in the judging.

I'm going to let the photos tell the story of the rest of the night.

1) Here's a picture of the main people responsible for putting the party together.

and this is the client Eileen,

Who many many times warned us before the night that if anything went wrong that night she would "Come after us".

2) And a picture of some of the Nuffies that went that night.

3) We had a wall right outside the party Nuffnangers who did the best pre-event entries could put on their hand print there.

4) Just around 7PM or so the crowd started to gather.

And as the sky darkened, a lot more Nuffnangers started crowding around outside HQNine.

Registering themselves and getting their goodie bags.

5) The Spartans showed up shortly after all dressed for war.

I couldn't help but laugh when I saw them. If you're wondering why... then make sure you've seen this.

They were like celebrities to me! And I was star struck... especially when one of them called my name "Timothy!!!"

I was expecting him to say

"MADNESS??!?!? THIS... IS... SPARTA!!!!" 

and kick me down a deep dark longkang but instead I ended up taking a picture with them.

6) There were lots of games that night with Liang and Jojo Struys taking the stage as the emcees.

One of them involved having two grown men put stockings on their heads and have a little tug of war.

Kenny who went as Susan Boyle that night 

won the match.

Seriously... it wasn't even a challenge to Kenny.

Check this out. He pulled this guy so hard he almost swung the guy through the window in front of him.

This is Susan Boyle celebrating after she swung his competing finalist to Abu Dhabi.

And Susan Boyle giving her tearful "Thank you speech".

While everyone else watched on

7) There were lots of prizes that were given away that night too. Apart from the XBOX 360 and Coach Bag, there were like Nintendo DS Lite's that were given away.

For the other people that didn't win best dressed, we also gave out little goodie bags with a little bolster in it but with a hidden Topshop/Topman voucher inside.

8) Oh and I nearly forgot the food.

For some reason there were two buffet lines but everyone just seemed to want to line up only at one. The other line was completely empty.

I think it's because Nuffnangers are all so polite they just decide to queue where everyone else is queuing so it doesn't look like they cut anyone's line.

9) Here's the big surprise of the night.

The party was held on the 6th of June which also happened to be my birthday. Whatever it was I made it very clear to Robb that this was going to be a Nuffnang Tiger party and not my birthday party so I told him to make sure there was no birthday related thing or anything.

Robb and the rest of the Nuffies though... disobeyed. Apparently with authorization from the other Founder of Nuffnang (Ming), 

Robb and Princess ignored my orders and put together a surprise for me.

At the end of the night Liang announced that it was my birthday and Princess appeared with a cake in her hand.

This I thought was the best picture of the night. 

When I saw this picture of Princess holding the cake later on, my heart melted. Princess was walking towards the stage and everyone was singing Happy Birthday when she happened to walk under the gush of air from a ceiling air-con. All the candles were blown off and everyone rushed to light it back on which was when this picture was taken. 

 

Right after I blew the re-lit candles off the cake everyone started coming up to me and pasting these little post-it notes on me. I later found out that they had earlier distributed these notes quietly to the Nuffnangers there that night and asked them to write a birthday wish.

At the end of the night I went through the notes and there were some really touching and really funny birthday wishes.

I think I'll dedicate a fresh new blog entry to them in the next few days and share some of them then.

Until then my dear readers!

PS: For more photos from the night, click here.

How My Surprise Birthday Party Turned Out To Be Not A Surprise

Updated: Just added a few more pictures that I just got from Yee Hou.

Since like a month ago, Princess was planning a surprise birthday party for me. A party that I knew everything about by the time I showed up at Modestos last Friday night for dinner.

Here's how I figured everything out.

1) Suet Li

The first news I ever heard of the party was from her.

She had just come back from the USA and we were both at Princess' house having a family dinner. She as the gf of Princess' brother and me as the bf of Princess :)

Suddenly at the dinner table she shouted out at me 

"EH!!! Why you never invite me for your birthday party?? You invite Jia Meei but didn't invite me lah!"

I looked at her confused.

"What birthday party?"

And then I looked over at Princess who by then was giving out a very nervous look (though she was trying really hard to act cool).

Then I hugged her and laughed

"Awww my Baby's planning me a birthday party!!!"

But Princess denied it...

So by then I knew that Princess was doing something for me. Though in the end we just decided between me and her that we were just going to have a quiet dinner with just the both of us and then meet friends for drinks later.  I just didn't know the details.... until the day of the party itself. 

2) Yee Hou

On the day itself Yee Hou called me to tell me that he had to apply for last minute emergency leave for something. So I said okay.

But he later on added

"But don't worry dude... I'll be back in time for tonight".

At that point I was like

"Huh? Tonight?"

And he said

"Yeah the surprise party... OH SHIT!"

Then I laughed.

But it didn't get so bad yet. Here's when everything really spilled out.

3) Suet Li (AGAIN)

Suet came by to visit us Nuffies having lunch on Friday. After her quick Hi's she had to go. Just before she left she said to me

Suet: See you tonight! Eh where is it again ar? It's in Capsquare right?

Me: Huh?

Suet: Must be right? I mean in KL itself only got one Modestos at Capsquare right?

All the Nuffies there who knew of the plan kept totally quiet and then later proceeded to scold her for leaking out the plan. Suet apparently had forgotten or something that it was meant to be a surprise. When Princess later found out that Suet had accidentally leaked it out, she was furious. In Suet's defence though, she thought I already knew about the party.

So I knew we were going to Modestos but I thought maybe for drinks later after Nicholas finally admitted to me

"Hey dude.. we're just having drinks at Modestos ler.. not dinner".

So I still thought that I was going to have a quiet dinner with Princess at Jake's as we had planned. Something I was actually beginning to look forward to. 

4) Pierre

Then sometime after lunch, Pierre called me up to ask

"Eh bro! Tonight what time and where again ar?"

I immediately stopped him from saying anything more and said

"I don't know and I'm not supposed to know. So just ask Princess".

5) The Final Blow

One hour before I was supposed to pick Princess up for dinner. Just as I was about to leave the office I asked the Nuffies where they were going to go for dinner before we met up later for drinks and Robb quickly presumptuously shouted

"Don't pretend lar! We know you know everything! We're all eating together at Modestos lah!"

I wasn't pretending. I really didn't know. But after that one reply I knew. By the time I picked Princess up I knew exactly what was going to happen. It was going to be a dinner with 30 or 40 of my close friends at Modestos (though she accidentally missed out Cheng Leong in all the rush. Sorry dude). 

Unfortunately I don't have many pictures from the night because I was too distracted but here are the few I have on my camera.

And one of them with me drinking a Flaming Lamborghini that they all made me drink later on.

After dinner that night, some friends came over to my place to chill for a while.

Kenny challenged Kim to a game of Nintendo Wii Boxing. And Kenny ended up losing but it's not his fault. For some reason I often lose to girls in Wii Boxing myself... something about the damn game!

At the end of the night, Princess hugged me and asked if I was happy. I said yes. There's just nothing better than spending your birthday with the friends that matter and nothing better than having someone put so much effort to put everything together for you. The surprise element in the end didn't really matter. 

Though I did tell her that if she wanted to do a surprise next time she needed to brief everyone properly and have some kind of back story to it just in case I asked. Just like how I skillfully planned hers a few months ago :)

I don't think my Princess can do it though. She's too innocent, honest and naive :)

Thank you Princess for organizing my 25th Birthday Party for me :)

Birthday Surprise

Princess planned me a surprise birthday party last night that didn't eventually end up as a surprise because everyone started 'accidentally' spilling the beans.

I had fun though... nothing like being around close friends. 

To all my friends who came and for those who wished me on Facebook, Twitter and text messages, thanks so much for your wishes.

And thank you Princess, for putting everything together :)

Will update more about it when I get more pictures. I only have a few from my camera. Here's one.

In the mean time... tonight we have the Nuffnang Tiger party to look forward to.

Check out all the beer we're going to be having there.

Must... control... myself.... 

Updates soon guys!

Things You Draw In Meetings

I was with Mehlin the other day at her office and she took out this notebook to take down some notes from our meeting.

In the notebook I saw some cute drawings.

I said "I'm guessing... you did this in a boring meeting?"

And she said "Yes".

She even drew another one that said

"Where's the idiot?"

And had the little cartoon point to a colleague next to her.

I think this is how we sometimes keep ourselves sane in boring lectures or meetings.

Twitter

Okay... I've started being a little addicted to Twitter again lately. I used to be addicted to it back in 2007, then for some reason it phased out on me and I never picked it up again because it stopped allowing SMS updates. I always thought... what's the point if using it if I can't update it from my mobile?

Now however I found an iPhone app for Twitter that works so I'm updating my Twitter very frequently wherever I go and whatever I do in my day again.

So if you're not already following me.... FOLLOW ME!!!

Or you could just read the updates from my blog sidebar.

Off for a meeting now. Bai!

When accidents allow you to meet nice people

Let me tell you a story.

Boy goes back to Penang. Boy's car breaks down in Penang so he has to leave it in the workshop there. 

Boy's Dad lends him another car to take back to KL while Boy's car is left in Penang.

Back in KL one night, Boy drives to pick Girl up after work.

Boy gets to a traffic light just 20 seconds away from Girl's office and waits excitedly for the light to turn green. Light turns green, Boy gets ready to shift gear but suddenly hears a big bang.

Boy looks in his rear view mirror to find a Kelisa had rammed into his car while he was staying totally still at the traffic light.

Boy curses "#$*(#($*#(*$"

That basically summarizes what happened to me in the past few days.

Yes, while waiting at the traffic light a car came and rammed me yesterday. It's a really peculiar thing... in all my history of driving, I have been involved in 4 road accidents and ALL 4 of them involved somebody banging me from the back. 

2 of the 4 involves somebody banging me from the back while I was not moving and just waiting at a traffic light. 

The good thing though is that the guy who banged me was really apologetic about it. He came out and said "Adui sorry sorry sorry... I salah!!!". His name is Idaham.

Idaham's impact knocked in my bumper and also knocked down my exhaust pipe to the extent that I couldn't move the car or it would be dragging all over the road.

Idaham was extremely nice though. He spent the next 15 minutes trying to figure out a way to tie it back up but we both didn't have any idea how to.

Fortunately my Dad has this practice to keep two things in a car.

1) A Jumpstart cable in case the car engine died and needed help in starting up again.

2) A ROPE!!! (in case we needed to tow the car).

So we used the rope and tied the exhaust pipe to the lid of the car boot so I could drive again and send the car to the workshop the next morning.

My uncle Danny was nice enough to lend me a car of his to use.

*whew*

Even after I had gone home that night Idaham called me again to check on me to make sure I was ok. He was a little worried about how much the damage would cost, but I told him we'll find out in the morning.

The next morning, Idaham texted me anxious about how much the damage was going to cost. Finally the mechanic quoted us RM550 for the repairs. It was a lot of money and I was going to have to come up with it first to pay the mechanic but Idaham assured me that he will pay me back for it no matter what. 

I'm glad... because I've been in a few car accidents before and none of them were as apologetic and helpful as Idaham. 

Just compare Idaham to the asshole lorry driver that banged me two years ago while I was at a traffic light waiting, then gave me a wrong phone number and quickly ran away (though I made a police report with his number plate). A world of a difference!

Thank you Idaham..... if anyone were to bang me again... I would really like it to be you. And I really hope you win a RM100,000 cash prize or some big reward from somewhere because people like you are the ones that deserve it.

Funny thing though is that Idaham later that day asked me if I was working. I said yes and he asked me where.

I said I work at a company called Nuffnang.

And he went

"Ooohh!!! I know Nuffnang! I'm a member there too!"

I laughed and said 

"Yeah.. hehee we do blog advertising"

What a small world indeed :)